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Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):  620/ 900  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   282.90
Core:  21   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   279.00
Sect:  3    Top of Section Depth(m):   282.62

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;
           FULL DESCRIPTION SEE 22-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (62-91);

  Texture    : PHYRIC, GRAIN SIZE IS GENERALLY FINER THAN
               UNDERLYING SECTION, ONE PCE IN SEDIMENT HAS CHILLED
               MARGINS SURROUNDING CENTRAL ZONE WITH VISIBLE PLAG
               LATHS;

  Structure  : PCE IN SEDIMENT POSSIBLY A SMALL PILLOW;

  Comments   : ONE PCE LIES WITHIN SEDIMENT;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):     TO 5   Percent:
               VESICULAR, DIFFERS FROM 22-1 IN THAT VESICLES ARE
               LARGELY UNFILLED AND ARE LESS COMMON;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

               PYROXENE
               ID UNCERTAIN;


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/  60  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   282.93
Core:  21   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   279.00
Sect: CC    Top of Section Depth(m):   282.97

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;
           FULL DESCRIPTION SEE 22-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (0-6);

  Texture    : PHYRIC, GRAIN SIZE IS GENERALLY FINER THAN
               UNDERLYING SECTION, ONE PCE IN SEDIMENT HAS CHILLED
               MARGINS SURROUNDING CENTRAL ZONE WITH VISIBLE PLAG
               LATHS;

  Structure  : PCE IN SEDIMENT POSSIBLY A SMALL PILLOW;

  Comments   : ONE PCE LIES WITHIN SEDIMENT;

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):     TO 5   Percent:
               VESICULAR, DIFFERS FROM 22-1 IN THAT VESICLES ARE
               LARGELY UNFILLED AND ARE LESS COMMON;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

               PYROXENE
               ID UNCERTAIN;


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1500  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   285.50
Core:  22   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   284.00
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   284.00

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (0-8), 2 (12-17), 3 (20-31), 4 (34-51),
               5 (52-62), 6 (65-70), 7 (74-87), 8 (90-100),
               9 (102-110), 10 (113-125), 11 (127-136),
               12 (139-149);

  Texture    : PHYRIC, FINE-GRAINED GNDMASS;

  Structure  : OCCASIONAL FRACTURES (IN PCES 3+4+7+9-11), ALSO
               INFILLED WITH BLACK MINERAL;

  Comments   : DARK GRAY TO GRAYISH BLACK (N3-N2);

  Vesicles   : Size(mm):     TO 8   Percent:
               Location:            Filling: SMEC,PYRITE
               VESICULAR, WIDESPREAD THROUGHOUT, INFILLED WITH
               BLACK (N1) MINERAL IDENTIFIED ON XRD AS FE-MG
               SAPONITE (SMEC) AND ALSO BRASSY YELLOW PYRITE,
               PCE 1 HAS 2CM BAND WITH VESICLES RARE;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE
               Size(mm):       TO 3

               PYROXENE
               ID UNCERTAIN, NUMEROUS;

               SMECTITE
               FE-MG SAPONITE;

               PYRITE
               BRASSY YELLOW PYRITE;


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 800  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   286.30
Core:  22   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   284.00
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   285.50

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;
           SAME AS SECTION 22-1;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (1-13), 2 (15-24), 3A (27-30), 3B (31-39),
               4A (42-50), 4B (50-61), 5A (65-72), 5B (72-78);

  Texture    : PHYRIC;

  Structure  : SAME AS SECTION 22-1 EXCEPT FOR FRACTURES INFILLED
               BY WHITE FIBROUS CALCITE (PCES 1+3B+5B) IN ADDITION;

  Vesicles   : VESICULAR;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

               PYROXENE

  Replacement: CALCITE
               WHITE FIBROUS CALCITE;


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/1300  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   289.80
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   288.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   288.50

LITHOLOGY: DRILLING BASALTIC BRECCIA;

  Piece No.  : NO PCE NUMBERS ASSIGNED, INTERVAL (0-130);

  Comments   : DRILLING BRECCIA OF BASALT AND CHERT AND DRILLING
               MUD, CLASTS UP TO 1CM;


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm): 1300/1500  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   290.00
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   288.50
Sect:  1    Top of Section Depth(m):   289.80

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;
           PHYRIC VESICULAR BASALT WITH CALCITE VEINING AS
           BEFORE;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (132-150);

  Texture    : PHYRIC;

  Structure  : CALCITE VEINING;

  Vesicles   : VESICULAR;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

               PYROXENE

  Replacement: CALCITE


Leg : 81    Top/Bottom Interval(mm):    0/ 600  Analyst: Morton, A.C.
Hole: 552   Sample Midpoint (m)    :   290.60
Core:  23   Top of Core Depth (m)  :   288.50
Sect:  2    Top of Section Depth(m):   290.00

LITHOLOGY: PLAG-PYX PHYRIC BASALT;
           PHYRIC VESICULAR BASALT AS BEFORE;

  Piece No.  : PCE 1 (0-11), 2 (14-35), 3 (37-42), 4 (44-58);

  Texture    : PHYRIC;

  Vesicles   : VESICULAR;

  Phenocrysts: PLAGIOCLASE

               PYROXENE


    

Introduction


Cite as: Deep Sea Drilling Project (1989): Archive of Core and Site/Hole Data and Photographs from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP). National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA. doi:10.7289/V54M92G2 [access date]

These Web pages are from the Core Data from the Deep Sea Drilling Project Legs 1-96 CD-ROM produced in 1989 and modified in 2000 by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Geophysical Data Center (now part of the National Centers for Environmental Information), and collocated World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder (now part of the World Data Service for Geophysics). Data were compiled in cooperation with the U.S. Science Support Program, of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. (now the Consortium for Ocean Leadership), and the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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